Improvement in shoe-tongues



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-TONGUES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,203, dated December14, 1875; application filed July 3, 1875.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. WINDRAM,

of Boston, of the county of Sufi'olk and State specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of Which Figures 1 and 2 areopposite side-views, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a shoetonguemade in accordance with my invention.

Common tongues for ladies boots or shoes are usually made of cloth orleather, having a binding sewed to their edges.

In my shoe-tongue I have no' such binding, and in its construction Iform it of two sheets or pieces of cloth or material, a b, laid flatwiseon one another, and pasted or cemented together, one being usually ofblack or colored material, and the other or the inner one, whichconstitutes the lining to the outer, being of white cloth or material.

Both sheets may be of like size, or the lining one may be about aquarter of an inch less in width, and about an eighth of an inch less inlength, than the outer sheet, in order that the latter, along its edges,may be turned over and lapped down upon the inner one; or both sheetsmay be equal in size, and both be turned down at their edges, as shownin Figs. 2 and 3 at c c c, the parts so folded down being cemented tothe lining.

In this way I am enabled to save the expense of a binding, and thesewing it on, and to make a stiffer, and in several respects better,tongue.

I claim-- As an improved manufacture, a shoe tongue composed of twosheets of material, a b, cemented together, and having the outer one orboth folded and fastened or pasted down upon the lining or inner onealong the outer edge

